Is talk or  talkd running setuid root ? If so it is probably setting the 
real uid rather than the effective uid (or vice versa) (this woould be a 
fairly common bug, but talk should be long since debugged weird)

--Chuck

At 07:14 PM 7/18/00 +0200, nbsd@righi.dhs.org wrote:
>I have just done a test right now
>IT happens to me with every user.